Windows Contracts in South London

Microsoft Windows
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 27 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 12 14 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 7.02% 6.33% 11.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.15% 46.67% 47.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 33
10th Percentile £181 £185 £131
25th Percentile £231 £187 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £251 £200 £225
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -11.11% -25.00%
75th Percentile £506 £241 £488
90th Percentile £618 £261 £500
London median daily rate £450 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £40.82 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £43.84 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% -13.05% +3.79%
75th Percentile - £46.86 -
90th Percentile - - £51.95
London median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year +9.91% -14.43% +7.53%

All Operating Systems
South London

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 26 30 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 15.20% 13.57% 24.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 77
10th Percentile £181 £187 £143
25th Percentile £250 £200 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.50% -
75th Percentile £522 £541 £625
90th Percentile £710 £567 £725
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £40.82 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £43.84 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% -13.05% +3.79%
75th Percentile - £46.86 -
90th Percentile - - £51.95
London median hourly rate £24.58 £22.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +11.73% -53.68% +93.88%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in South London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in South London.

Daily rate trend for Windows in South London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in South London over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in South London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in South London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in South London

Windows
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South London region over the 6 months to 24 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bromley 0 4 £725 +281.58% 4
Kingston Upon Thames +3 3 £135 -32.50% 3
Merton +1 3 £251 +5.47% 3
Croydon +5 2 £350 -48.15%
Windows
London

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) JBoss
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
1 1 (8.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) VSAN
2 2 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) LAN
3 1 (8.33%) NAS
3 1 (8.33%) SAN
3 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) DB2
1 1 (8.33%) IMS/DB
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Local Government
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Operations Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Service Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) EJB
1 1 (8.33%) Entity Framework
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) J2EE
1 1 (8.33%) JDBC
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
1 1 (8.33%) Web Services
1 1 (8.33%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (8.33%) XML
1 1 (8.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (16.67%) Android
2 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) VMS
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) Customer Service
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (25.00%) ITSM
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (16.67%) Logistics
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 2 (16.67%) Service Management
5 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
6 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
6 1 (8.33%) Log Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) Order Management
6 1 (8.33%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C#
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) REXX
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (33.33%) vSphere
4 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) EMC
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) SonicWALL
3 1 (8.33%) Wyse